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04-30-2011, 07:40 PM | #1 |
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Opinion: Would you destroy physical book in exchange for a electronic version?
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This is totally hypothetical, I’m not offering to do it etc etc, just starting a discussion on it. You "know" someone or have a friend that has an ebook version of current best seller that isn’t offered electronically, for arguments sake we say that they bought the book / scanned / formatted etc all for their use ONLY. Would you buy a physical copy, and exchange it for a copy of the ebook version, as long as the physical copy was destroyed? So: 1) Electronic copy was made destroying physical copy. 2) You buy physical copy to be traded for ebook version 3) The physical book is destroyed to prevent “extra” copys / in exchange for the ebook verison. |
04-30-2011, 07:48 PM | #2 |
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Id rather have the physical copy.....
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04-30-2011, 07:53 PM | #3 |
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I gave away a few old copies of public domain books when I got an ereader, but that is as far as I am going! My book collection is priceless (to me, at least)
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04-30-2011, 08:01 PM | #4 |
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Depends on the book. . .
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04-30-2011, 08:08 PM | #5 |
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If I have bought the book, I feel no moral dilemma procuring an ebook from the dark net of that same book.
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04-30-2011, 09:34 PM | #6 |
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It depends on the book, and the quality of the ebook version.
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04-30-2011, 10:10 PM | #7 |
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I would keep both and just consider the pbook as using up one of the 6 allowed simultaneous "devices" that ebook licenses allow.
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04-30-2011, 10:47 PM | #8 |
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04-30-2011, 11:12 PM | #9 |
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Usually "real" books are much more valuable to me than the e-books. I have the Kindle in large part for the public domain and classic titles and I still have a couple thousand BOOKS I wouldn't trade for any e-book.
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04-30-2011, 11:26 PM | #10 |
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It's a very cool question but for me the answer is Nope, the book monkey rides me too hard.
Heck I have purchased "dead tree" and digital versions of a number of the same books. I once found myself reading the same book, in parallel, on a computer during lunches at work, as a hardcover during laundromat trips, and on an ipod touch (after the wife said "lights out") at bedtime. |
04-30-2011, 11:49 PM | #11 |
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I have a visceral antipathy toward destroying any book, no matter what I get in return. I just can't do it. It's destroying a book. </shudder>
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05-01-2011, 12:11 AM | #12 |
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I don't like the eradication of knowledge potentials either. This is why I share everything that I can. Is not sharing the same as destruction though? When copying is so simple? I propose that it is. To not share your books, that is a crime against knowledge.
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05-01-2011, 12:48 AM | #14 |
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I've chopped-and-scanned books I bought for that purpose. I suppose that counts as "destroying" the physical book; it's certainly not particularly readable afterward.
I usually look on Amazon for a used copy for this--which means I pay a penny + postage, and the author & publisher receive nothing. |
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I guess if someone offered to make a (proofread) ebook from a book, which involved destroying the book, I've got a few that are in bad shape, anyway and would trade like that. Or if the author or publisher offered to give the ebook to anyone who sent in a paper copy (or a few pages thereof, or some other kind of proof of destruction). Scanning books myself I'm too lazy to, but then, I've got a flatbed scanner, so that'd involve turning pages and aligning them by hand, not droping a sheaf of pages in and letting the scanner do its thing. |
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